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TRACK PoR DOOR HANGERS. APPLICATION FILED 00T.10, 1911.

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PETER FRANTZ, 0F STERLING, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO FRANTZ MANUFACTURINGCO.,

' OF STERLING, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

TRACK FOR DOOR-HANGERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 10, 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912. serial No. 653,884.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it knownl that I, PETER FRANTZ, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Sterling, in the county of I/Vhiteside, tateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tracksfor Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to that class of doorhangers in which aninturned lateral flange at the underside Vof a longitudinal housingconstitutes a pivoted overhead tracking for the wheels of a doo-rhanger, an example of which forms the subject matter of my prior LettersPatent No. 993,161, dated May 23, 1911. And the present improvement hasfor its object to provide a simple and eflicient structural formation ofthe trackway whereby access of water to the lower trough shaped portionof the trackway isv prevented and increased lateral stiffness impartedto the same, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a rear elevation of a portionof a trackway embodying the present improvement. Fig. 2 is a transversesection of the same on line a2m, Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in both views.

As represented in the drawing, the trackway will have substantially thesame form as that described in my before mentioned Letters Patent No.993,161, and comprise in detail, an upper vertical attaching web 1,which merges at its lower end intoran outwardly projecting inclined shedportion or web 2, the outer end of which in turn merges into a verticalweb 3, the lower end of which terminates in or carries an inturnedtrough shaped web 4 which constitutes the longitudinal track for theusual tandem wheels of a door hanger.

5 is an outwardly extending inclined web located at the lower end of thevertical web 3, and adapted to impart additional lateral stiffness tothe trackway, as set forth in detail in my before mentioned LettersPatent.

In the present improvement 6 is a vertical plate or web arrangedimmediately back of the aforesaid vertical attaching web 1, andextending the length of the trackway. Said plate or web 6 is preferablyconnected in an integral manner to the attaching web 1, by a closereturn bend 7 as shown, and at its lower end extends a distance belowthe lower edge of the web 1, so as to prevent any water, which may passbetween the trackway and the wall to which it is attached, from creepingalong the inner surface of the trackway and accumulating in the troughshaped track 4. With the present constructio-n such water will be causedto drip to the rear of said track.

Having thus fully described my said invention what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A trackway comprising an upper vertical attaching web, an inclinedweb extending outwardly from the lower end of said vertical web, anintermediate vertical web depending from the outer end of said inclinedweb, an inturned track forming web extending laterally from the lowerend of said intermediate web, and a vertical plate o-r web arrangedimmediately back of the vertical attaching web and extending the fulllength of the trackway, the lower edge of said vertical plate extendinga distance below the lower edge of the aforesaid vertical attaching web,the said vert-ical plate being disposed in a plane a distance inside ofthe inturned track web aforesaid, substantially as set forth.

2. A trackway comprising, an upper vertical attaching web, an inclinedweb extending outwardly from the lower end of said vertical web, anintermediate vertical web depending from the outer end of said inclinedweb, an inturned track forming web extending laterally from the lowerend of said intermediate web, and a vertical plate or web arrangedimmediately back of the vertical attaching web and integrally attachedthereto by a return bend, said vertical plate extending the full lengthof the trackway and having a loWer edge extended Signed at Sterling,Illinois, this 7th day a distance below the lower edge of the :iforeofOctober, 1911.

said vertical attaching Web, the said verti- PETER FRANTZ. cal platebeing disposed in L plane a dis- Witnesses:

5 tance inside of the inturned track web afore- E. A. GIBSON,

said, substantially as set forth. J. H. TIETsoRT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

